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Dominant post-socialist “rationality” serves the purpose of rendering Socialism, the
Communist movement and Marxism into something belonging definitively to the
past. Thereby making historical, revolutionary events nowadays appear as some kind
of childish illusion, unrealistic daydreams which were solely enabled by the existence
of the paternal figure of welfare state (no matter whether “democratic-” or “party-”)
that – by taking care of the everyday needs of its subjects – provided the leisure time
for rebellious ideas and actions. Dominant neo-liberalism presents itself as a wake-up
call, a reminder to everyone that it is time to “get serious” and to take responsibility of
oneself, meaning to market ourselves, to become the so-called “prosumers”, to be at
once, our own labor-force and employees, as well as financial, marketing and PR
managers. Therefore, not to “find” but to “create” jobs, as well as to “self-organize”
health security and pension funds – in short, to wager an everyday and never-ending
fight for our evermore precarious place on the “open market”. However, the memory
of those rebellious times and, more importantly, the practical need for some tangible
alternative to the contemporary capitalist system endures. Therefore, items, images
and symbols of the revolutionary past – “memorabilia” of those “naive” and “overlyenthusiastic”
events – are readily recycled into artifacts for consumption circulating
within the numerous retro-vogues profitable for the growing nostalgia industry. The
constraint of perceiving Socialism in this nostalgic mode aims precisely for the
enclosing and neutralization of any imaginable form of radical change.